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Periódico Font

Designer: Eduardo Manso
Publisher: Emtype Foundry

Periódico was created by Eduardo Manso and released by Emtype Foundry. Periódico includes 30 styles and household package alternatives. p > Periódico (newspaper in Spanish), was initially commissioned by the Spanish day-to-day paper ABC. Inspired by old Spanish typographic inscriptions, mainly from the second half of the 18th Century, we selected the most pertinent details of Spanish typography as the source of that inspiration, and instead of making a revival or an analysis of these designs, we began from scratch to create a really original font family. The goal was to achieve a very unique family, practical and versatile at the exact same time, and reminiscent of old Spanish typography.

Although we have actually obtained many information from the old Spanish typography, like the nail, which exists in the letters U, G, or J, which we worked and evolved in order to be used on other letters, we have likewise left several others. One example is the tilde of the ñ inscribed by Gerónimo Gil, a really distinctive element of Spanish typography that was intentionally omitted for being too irregular to be utilized in a modern font.

The letters a and g are most likely the most unique of the Periódico family. The shape of the bowl in the letter a, with the leading arch in diagonal position, is very characteristic of old Spanish types. In Periódico, we stressed this information by using it to many other letters (such as g, j, and t) up to a point that it became the leitmotiv of this family.

The formal surface of serifs and terminals is something that gives excellent character to any typeface, so we developed plenty of alternatives in order to find the precise shape we wanted: sober, sophisticated, and contemporary. Although the serifs are geometric, the upper terminals have a curve with a dynamic extremely similar to the arch in the a or the notch in the j. The terminals in the capitals follow the very same design, but, in this case, the inspiration originates from Pradell's Missal, which on the other hand has actually been influenced by the types inscribed by Johann Michael Fleischman in the Netherlands.

Eighteenth-Century types were mainly used for printing books. Therefore, they had very generous percentages (big ascendents and descendants) and high contrast, but today, these attributes do not work well in papers due to the fact that of the around the world need for more space-saving typefaces. The adjustment of the type's proportions to be utilized for a newspaper was among the most intriguing parts of the job, specially the time taken to discover the ideal balance in between the x height and legibility.